Get Found & Cited by AI
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot are becoming a real source of traffic and enquiries. QDCODEX makes your site technically and structurally ready for AI systems to find, understand, and — where genuinely relevant — cite.
What It Is
GEO & AEO, in plain terms
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of making a website easy for AI systems to read, understand, and cite — the same way SEO makes a site easy for Google to rank. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the content half of that: structuring information as direct, self-contained answers instead of long unstructured prose, since that's the format AI engines extract from most reliably.
Neither replaces traditional SEO — they build on the same technical foundation (fast pages, clean HTML, a working sitemap) and add AI-specific layers on top: crawler access, structured data, entity clarity, and answer-first content.
What We Implement
Concrete GEO/AEO Work
Not theory — this is what actually gets built on your site.
llms.txt
A dedicated file describing your business, services, and key pages in the format AI systems are starting to read directly.
AI Crawler Access
An explicit robots.txt allowlist for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and other AI crawlers — verified, not assumed.
Structured Data (JSON-LD)
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage and BreadcrumbList schema — kept internally consistent, not contradicting itself across pages.
Entity Consistency Audit
Finding and fixing contradictory business facts — addresses, stats, founding dates — that erode an AI system's trust in a source.
Answer-First Content
Restructuring key pages so real questions get direct, quotable answers near the top, backed by FAQPage schema.
IndexNow Integration
Instant re-indexing pings to Bing/Copilot and other participating engines on every content update, instead of waiting for a crawl.
Who It's For
Built for businesses that want to show up where search is heading
Businesses already investing in SEO who want the same content working for AI search too
Local and regional companies wanting to be the source an AI cites for their category and area
B2B and service businesses whose buyers increasingly research via ChatGPT or Perplexity before Google
Any site with inconsistent or unclear business information that needs an entity clean-up
Process
How a GEO/AEO Engagement Runs
Audit
Full inspection of existing metadata, schema, robots.txt, sitemap, content structure, and entity consistency — before anything is changed.
Fix Contradictions
Resolve conflicting business facts (addresses, stats, claims) found during the audit — no new content is built on top of bad data.
Implement
llms.txt, AI-crawler robots.txt, structured data, and answer-first content changes — built into your existing site and design.
Verify
Confirm schema validates, sitemap and robots.txt work correctly, and pages remain indexable — a broken implementation helps no one.
What GEO can and can't promise
No agency can guarantee a citation from ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews — those systems decide independently what to surface. GEO/AEO work removes the technical and structural barriers that stop an AI system from finding and trusting a site in the first place. We report on what was implemented and verified, not on placements we don't control.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?
GEO is the practice of making a website easy for AI systems — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude — to read, understand, and cite. It covers structured data, clear entity information, crawler access, and content written to be directly quotable, alongside traditional SEO rather than instead of it.
What is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)?
AEO focuses on structuring content as direct questions and answers — the format AI engines and voice assistants pull from most easily. Concise, self-contained answers near the top of a page, backed by FAQPage schema, are far more likely to be extracted and quoted than long, unstructured paragraphs.
How is GEO different from traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links. GEO and AEO optimize for a different outcome: being the source an AI system quotes or cites directly in its answer. The technical foundation overlaps heavily — a technically sound, well-structured site helps both — but GEO adds AI-specific work like llms.txt, explicit AI-crawler access, and answer-first content structure.
What does QDCODEX actually implement for GEO?
Concretely: an llms.txt file describing the business for AI systems, an explicit robots.txt allowlist for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others), Organization/LocalBusiness/Service/FAQPage structured data kept internally consistent, IndexNow integration for faster re-indexing on Bing and other participating engines, and content restructured to answer real questions directly instead of burying facts in marketing copy.
Can you guarantee my business will be cited by ChatGPT or appear in AI Overviews?
No — and no legitimate agency can. AI systems decide independently what to cite based on relevance and trust signals. What GEO/AEO work can do is remove the technical and structural barriers that stop an AI system from finding, understanding, and trusting your site in the first place. We report on what was implemented, not on guaranteed placements.
Do I need a new website for GEO, or can it be added to an existing one?
In almost all cases it's added to the existing site — GEO work is primarily structured data, metadata, crawler configuration, and content restructuring, not a rebuild.
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